Monday, January 21, 2013

It has been an awesome week!!!

We went to visit an old lighthouse that we can see from our house. It is still
in use today.

Mainland in the distance

This is one of the main streets that they blocked off and used for the grand prix in November. You can see that it's also a race track if you look at the turn.

These are from a cool park across the street from our church. We go finding in
it sometimes, but last week we went and took pictures. Apparently it used to be
a rich guy's house/yard!

Wow can you believe it's
already January 21?!!! I'll start with your questions:

1 - Last week you
mentioned that Sister Law had a U-turn. What does that mean?

We have to exit and
re-enter Macau in order to renew our visas when we run out of days.
Mainland is a lot closer, (you could easily swim there, and probably be
able to hear each other shouting in some places, it's soooo close!) We can’t go
to Mainland, so we take the ferry to HK, buy a ticket, (Elders usually get
McDonalds because it's cheaper there) and take the boat back. On
Wednesday, since I'm exiting with Sister Cook and Sister Heaton we will
probably get to go to the temple!!!

2 - Who went with her
when she had to go?

No one, we just dropped
her off at the pier and picked her up 2.5 hours later.

3 - How are your shoes,
clothes holding up?

Sooo good! I've
inherited a number of new things from the "give away" drawers in our
apartment. I have too many clothes if anything. The shoes are
great!The elastic hasn't broken since
last March.

4 - When was the last
time you were in a car? I imagine that you have only been on buses,
trains and ferries.

Oh gosh I don't remember
. . . yeah I have no idea. Do Taxis count? If so, then 6 weeks ago.

5 - How do you
think it will be to be in a new area for just a couple weeks before you come
home? It sounds like it would be about 10 days. Is that correct?

Probably. I'm
praying that I get 30 days when I exit on Wednesday so that way I can stay
until the end. But even at that I might have to come out for a few days
so that I can attend Career workshop. I think it will be fun!!! I hope it
will be. We had 24s this week and I did Chinese work. It was fun!
I can still speak it! (Thank goodness!) My brain hurt from trying
to understand. It made me realize how much I LOVE international work. I
know I'm supposed to be here!!

It has been an awesome
week!!! We taught a TON of lessons and had sooooo many referrals!!! We have
been really, really excited!!! The sisters at President Marcello's boarding
house have been on fire still and we've gone to their house to teach lessons
almost every day this week. One of the sisters is here waiting for her
visa to Hong Kong, so she is not busy and uses her time to help us! She
has scheduled several people to see us! It's been especially nice because
our church was getting new front doors last week so we were not able to use it
for a day and a half.

We planned to visit a
member who runs several boarding houses on Friday. Instead, she took us to 2 of
the boarding houses and had us teach some of the boarders there. She did
the same thing on Sunday. We have 8 referrals just from her this week!!!
It was amazing!!!!

E. is still great,
except she's moving back to the Philippines tomorrow!!! We were praying for her
to find a job so that she could stay here with her husband, but apparently
Heavenly Father has another plan. She wants to continue going to church
so we will refer her to the missionaries there.

Sister E. is doing
great! We were teaching about dressing modestly and she asked about a
mini skirt she wore to church last week. We explained that we wear skirts
that come to her knees and she said, "thank you for explaining to me, I
won't wear it." Luckily we had some extra skirts that other sisters
had left so we brought those for her. She had already found another dress
by church on Sunday and looked beautiful!!!!

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